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Wi-Fi access points are inexpensive, because they are now accepted as commodity hardware. You can buy them at discount stores, warehouse clubs, and probably your local gas station. Models with many features and support for 802.11g can now be purchased for well under $100. Why then would you want to build your own access point? Aside from the usual geek reason ("because you can," a.k.a. "why even ask?"), there are many practical reasons:
These are only a few good reasons to build your own access point. In order to get started, you need some hardware, a Linux distribution, and some configuration basics. We cover each in turn . |
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